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New 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 has 33% smaller die, 30% idle power savings

unched the 2 gig Pi 5 for $50, and besides half the RAM and a lower price, it has a new stepping of the main BCM2712 chip. This is the BCM2712 D0 stepping.

Steppings are basically chip revisions where they don't change functionality, and usually just fix bugs, or tweak the layout. There's still a hard limit of 1.1V from the PMIC, so besides splicing in higher voltages direct into the SoC, the only other hardware-level modification I hadn't tried was delidding the Pi's processor. SteppingWidthHeightDie areaBCM2712 D06.30mm5.98mm37.674mm 2 BCM2712 C16.47mm8.63mm55.836mm 2 The D0 is 32.5% smaller than the older version, which would definitely bring down the price per chip, assuming the same yield on a given silicon wafer.

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